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Coloured

1

/ ˈkʌləd /

noun

  1. old-fashioned.
    an individual who is not a White person, esp a Black person
    1. a person of mixed ethnic parentage or descent
    2. a person of mixed ethnic descent speaking English or Afrikaans as their mother tongue


adjective

  1. old-fashioned.
    designating or relating to a Coloured person or Coloured people

coloured

2

/ ˈkʌləd /

adjective

  1. possessing colour
  2. having a strong element of fiction or fantasy; distorted (esp in the phrase highly coloured )

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Usage

The use of Coloured to refer to a person of mixed ethnic origin is likely to cause offence and should be avoided

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Example Sentences

The organ gallery gets a strong white light from a row of long windows in the clerestory, which have not even coloured glass.

I smiled at her confusion and complimented her on the banner she was embroidering from a coloured plate.

The room was built of rose-coloured marble excepting the floor, which was tessellated in rose and grey.

An elderly ‘coloured’ woman said, to no-one in particular, “No, that little boy has nothing to worry about.”

But Céline has never had a coloured person showing in their collection.

There was no vivacity in his putty-coloured features, but there were promptitude and decision in every abrupt gesture.

As they entered, a liver-coloured hound that lay stretched before the fire growled lazily, and showed the whites of his eyes.

I remember it well; a pale, creamy-coloured paper cover, good type, good paper.

Bright-coloured birds flew about among the bushes, but they had no songs for Alila and the hunter as they passed along.

For about thirty feet from the ground this was painted in coloured stripes very much like a barber's pole.

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